TELEGRAPH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 Introduction is formal meeting the Queen (6) 4 Spread betting odds before final? (8) 9 King, nearly everybody scoffed about King (6) 10 Unit in action, late (8) 12 Fantastic bird returns calls for drinks (8) 13 Pub encounters ordeal regularly finding keg (6) 15 One maturing at manoeuvres, revealing logic (13) 18 Obstinacy recanting sin about embracing sweetheart (13) 22 Illegal activity, in the main (6) 24 Repeated sex considered to include love finally (8) 26 Practically gone with inert vaporised gas (8) 27 Rakish, the Parisian stifling cry of pain (6) 28 Cold and idle hanging around small corridor (8) 29 Donations following ends of priest’s hymns (6)

Down

1 Fish settle around top of ice (6) 2 Grass due to face time trapping bloke (9) 3 Time is pressing? (7) 5 American writer close to Walt Whitman? (4) 6 Like former US President missing old state (7) 7 Teacher’s expression of disapproval over arithmetic, perhaps (5) 8 Don’t leer horribly, it’s suggestive (8) 11 Look, part of leg limps excessively (7) 14 King nearly takes unoccupied pieces (7) 16 The same pattern, retaining knot (hitch) applied evenly (9) 17 The man’s agitation seeing Jennifer Lopez, for example (8) 19 Presenters like to accept new job cut (7) 20 Tapers point on pointed missiles (7) 21 Individuals doing little except remain sedentary initially (6) 23 Dated being in severe trouble (5) 25 Iron outside of tie for party (4)